[Corpora-List] Senior Research Assistant NLP Position at Educational Testing Service

[Joel Tetreault]

Senior Research Assistant
JOB ID: 100522

http://ets.pereless.com/careers/index.cfm?fuseaction=83080.viewjobdetail&CID=83080&JID=100522&type=True&cfcend


  Job Description:
Educational Testing Service has an opening for a Senior Research Assistant 
position in the Applied Research and Development Group. The successful 
candidate will primarily provide support to Research Scientists working on 
a branch of computer science and computational linguistics known as 
Natural Language Processing (NLP) by assisting in all phases of research 
projects, including research design, project management, data collection 
and analysis. He or she will also collaborate with researchers in 
preparing study results for publication or presentation, including 
literature searches, producing charts and graphs, writing and editing.

BASIC FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Coordinate research project workflow including planning and designing 
pilot and field testing; data collection, analysis, and presentation; 
preparation, production, and distribution of proposals and reports; 
maintaining data files; and producing workshop materials. Schedule 
services with other ETS departments and project staff. Act as liaison 
between project directors and field staff, support staff, and research 
community, as assigned. Plan, manage, and perform annotations for a 
variety of projects.

Collect, organize, and verify data; analyze, synthesize, and interpret 
data; perform statistical calculations.

Monitor activities of temporary and support staff and data collection 
centers to control budgets, workflow, quality of coding operations, and 
project activities.

Develop coding systems, procedures, and manuals; research instruments; 
statistical analyses; and files of current resource materials for 
workshops and projects.

Write, revise, edit, and proofread research instruments, project documents 
and publications, memoranda, and correspondence.

Contribute to formal reports and proposals (or sections thereof).

Update publications and prepare graphics, tables, charts, graphs, figures, 
and visual aids. Administer tests, research instruments, interviews, and 
surveys.

Conduct literature searches and prepare reference lists, evaluating and 
selecting materials to be included.

Operate computer terminal to enter, edit, and update data; program and 
utilize sophisticated statistical packages for data analysis; act as data 
custodian for cost center.

Select and train field staff; instruct support staff.

Arrange and attend meetings with clients, committees, and consultants.

Meet with clients to plan or interpret guidelines, as assigned.

Required Experience:
EDUCATION A Bachelor's degree in a behavioral or social science with 
coursework in Statistics is necessary. Coursework or experience working in 
linguistics, computer science and/or natural language processing (NLP) 
technologies preferred.

EXPERIENCE A successful candidate will have exemplary written, 
grammatical, and technical skills. Three years of research-related 
experience in an academic or professional setting is necessary.



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